Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Period confection in three acts could use pruning
There’s slight (White Christmas, to name but one) and then there’s The Boy Friend, a period musical so unabashedly vaporous that if yo…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMFriday, November 29, 2019
Jordan Belfort memoirs translate unpleasantly, even unnecessarily, to the stage
Of all the groups you probably wouldn’t want to be part of, surely the hyper-adrenalised, hardscrabble popu…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:36AMThursday, November 28, 2019
Seasonal entertainment is cheerful if essentially dull
Nostalgia for things that probably never were is an animating theme in politics these days.
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 09:06AM“Dear Evan Hansen” is the latest Broadway musical to open in the West End, along with the pop bonanza “& Juliet” and nearby, the quietly powerful “Ghost Quartet.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Miriam-Teak Lee was something of an overnight sensation when she played Claire De Loone in the 2017 Open Air Theatre Regent’s Park revival of On the Town, since which time she went on to u…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:12PMFriday, November 22, 2019
Michael Greif has shepherded Dear Evan Hansen successfully into port many times at this point, but only now is the 2017 Best Musical Tony Award winner being seen outside North America. Its W…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 11:54AMWednesday, November 13, 2019
In the first part of our chat with the ever-vital Elaine Paige, the English musical theater legend spoke about making the shift into radio and the excitement that has accompanied this unexpe…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:33PMFriday, November 8, 2019
Elaine Paige needs scant introduction as the “first lady of the British musical theater,” a title that the veteran star of Evita, Cats, Chess and Sunset Boulevard, to name just a few of …
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 04:03PMThursday, November 7, 2019
Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Annie Baker's latest will divide opinion but reward devotees
The National Theatre is forging its own special relationship with American playwright Annie Baker, having now produced three of h…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:36AMTuesday, November 5, 2019
London has seen numerous Phantoms in the 33-plus years since the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical The Phantom of the Opera had its world premiere before going on to become a global phenomenon. Bu…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 01:18AMMonday, October 28, 2019
High Fidelity didn’t last long on Broadway in 2006, but the musical adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel has had plenty of airings elsewhere since that time and is now in previews at southw…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 02:59PMThursday, October 24, 2019
Arinzé Kene play from 2011 packs a renewed punch
Time has been not just kind but even crucial to Little Baby Jesus, the 2011 play from the multi-hyphenate talent Arinzé Kene, who since…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMTuesday, October 22, 2019
Gorky play suffers an identity crisis in uneasily-pitched revival
Even the mighty Almeida is allowed the occasional dud and it’s sure as hell got one at the moment with Vassa. Maxim Gork…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:48PMFriday, October 18, 2019
The Lion King this month marks 20 years on the London stage, during which time it has become the sixth longest-running West End musical ever, with no end in sight. The iconic Disney musical …
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 02:08PMWhether it’s finishing what Jane Austen started, imagining the private conversations of first ladies or inserting the personal, on London stages female playwrights are mixing things up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33AMSaturday, October 12, 2019
The Tony-nominated composer/lyricist Dave Malloy of Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812 fame hasn’t had a London presence until this fall, when he is unexpectedly being represent…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 12:00AMFriday, October 11, 2019
The ever-likable Mischief Theatre's latest stretches them in new if still-unfinished ways
If ambition were all, Groan Ups would get an A*. Marking the first of a very welcome three-show res…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:48AMThursday, October 10, 2019
Sondheim's 1990 show gets more disturbingly pertinent with every revival
“Every now and then the country goes a little wrong”: so goes one of the many lyrics from the Stephen Sondheim-Jo…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:06AMMonday, October 7, 2019
Henry Shields is an invaluable part of London’s invaluable and in-demand Mischief Theatre Company, having long doubled as both a writer and actor on such hits as The Play That Goes Wrong, …
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 04:36PMWednesday, October 2, 2019
Athol Fugard's 1982 self-exorcism is searingly revived
Time has been kind to Athol Fugard's "Master Harold"...and the Boys. It's a stealth bomb of a play that I saw in its world premiere pro…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:33AMTuesday, October 1, 2019
Lloyd Owen has one of the best, most resonant speaking voices in the business and has leant his vocal luster to such roles as Nick in Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, opposite Diana Rigg, …
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 04:31PMThursday, September 26, 2019
From a member of Parliament in “Hansard” to the users of a threatened community center in “Faith, Hope and Charity,” London theaters are exploring how power works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33AMThursday, September 19, 2019
The French writer Florian Zeller is rarely long absent from the London or New York stage. On Broadway he is represented at the moment by the transfer from the West End of The Height of the S…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 03:47PMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Onetime Broadway flop has more charm in London but still needs work
The work isn't finished on Big, if this stage musical of the beloved 1988 Tom Hanks film is ever to, um, make it big. A B…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:06AMSunday, September 15, 2019
Jay McGuiness was a member of the popular English boy band The Wanted and won the 2015 edition of Strictly Come Dancing, the U.K. precursor to Dancing with the Stars. But he is currently ret…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 06:00AMSaturday, September 14, 2019
A potentially compelling play is done in by its structure and an unhelpful staging
An excellent director makes a rare misstep with Amsterdam, in which a compelling if tricksy play is given …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:42AMTuesday, September 10, 2019
Chicago actress Samantha Pauly has been in three previous productions of Evita, none of which can have been as conceptually daring as the director Jamie Lloyd’s provocative and edgy curren…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 12:03AMMonday, September 9, 2019
Chicago actress Samantha Pauly has been in three previous productions of Evita, none of which can have been as conceptually daring as the director Jamie Lloyd’s provocative and edgy curren…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 12:02PMThursday, September 5, 2019
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
The Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is a regular visitor to the London stage but there's never in my extensive experience been as likable an…
SOURCE: Theatre.com at 10:00AM 
